Your patron saint of the week is Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), whose association with surrealist artists and her bohemian life as a painter and actress earned her the title "The Mama of Dada." At the age of 92, she finished her autobiography, which was entitled I Shock Myself. Your first assignment, Gemini, is to do three things in the coming week about which you'll be able to say, "I shock myself." Your second assignment is to imagine that you're 92 and looking back with pride at the top ten smart things you did to shock yourself into a heightened state of awareness in the years between now and then.

Sounds like a good excuse for an Exploratorium visit :-)

Also, my moon sign, Leo:

I have extensive experience with writing in the dark. Every night for many years I have awoken in pitch blackness to write down my dreams. I also take notes while watching movies in theaters, scrawl poems on redeye plane flights while all the other passengers are sleeping, and jot down my meditations as I stroll in the hills after midnight. I recommend that you try this yourself, Leo. It's prime time to peer inward and think hard . . . to sharpen your perceptions of the invisible world . . . to gather impressions from the edgy frontier where your conscious and unconscious minds overlap.

My writing, not perfect at the best of times, is pretty completely indecipherable in the dark or when I'm otherwise not watching it.

Hello! I'm guessing from your photos that you don't know me -- I'm 31, and left Huntsville more-or-less permanently when I turned 17. But yup, I am indeed a Huntsville High School something-or-other. I can't say "graduate" or "alumnus" 'cause I didn't graduate, I just dropped out and went off to college. :-)